TIFF came and went in a whirlwind… This year, I had the opportunity to view 24 features and 5 short films from Canada and around the world. I enjoyed the energy of the festival and albeit the SAG-WGA strikes, we had wonderful international guests in attendance.
Once festival closes, it is always difficult to create a list of favourites. Nevertheless, here are some standouts for me at this year’s TIFF.
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Being the first all-Latino horror anthology, Satanic Hispanics, features five short films from some of the leading Latino filmmakers in the genre.
Produced by Patrick Ewald, Mike Mendez (The Convent) and Alejandro Brugués (Juan of the Dead), the team of directors includes Gigi Saul Guerrero (Bingo Hell), Demián Rugna (Terrified), Eduardo Sánchez (The Blair Witch Project) with Brugués also directing one of the stories.
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Returning with this second instalment of my personal picks of films to see at this year’s TIFF.
This time, I give you a list of five excellent Canadian short films screening as part of various Short Cuts Programmes.
READ MOREIt is that time again… The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) returns with a full slate of programming from September 7–17, 2023. The festival will feature 10 days of films and other fun events, including Festival Street. You can find out more about some of the updates here.
As I have done in the past, I am sharing some of my personal picks of films to see at this year’s TIFF. This first installment highlights two Canadian documentaries and three fiction films from various parts of the world. I highly recommend all of them.
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What happens to the collective memory of an oppressed country if the ones who report on the oppression fail to remember? This is the question Oscar-nominated Chilean director Maite Alberdi’s The Eternal Memory asks of its main subjects: renowned journalist Augusto Góngora, who is in late-stage dementia; and Paulina Urrutia, a culture minister and Góngora’s life partner of 25 years.
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To entice you even more about attending some of the performances at this year’s SummerWorks Performance Festival, I have another instalment of my 5 Questions With… series!
Learn more about SummerWorks from another of the six guest curators, Alison Wong 黃巧文, a director, producer, and performance maker born in Hong Kong and now based in Treaty 13 territory, also known as Toronto.
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In getting you ready for the 2023 SummerWorks Performance Festival, I bring you another spotlight interview with one of the six guest curators.
I return with my 5 Questions With… Series with Aria Evans, a queer, Toronto based, West Coast born award winning interdisciplinary artist who’s practice spans dance, theatre and film.
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The SummerWorks Performance Festival returns to Toronto with a wide range of artistic programming that invites audiences to gather together to create new connections with one another and experience the palpable joys of intimacy, ephemerality, and community.
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Tënk is a solidarity cooperative and subscription-based documentary streaming platform now available online across Canada.
Tënk was first created in Lussas, France, in what is affectionately known as The Documentary Village. The not-for-profit was first launched in Quebec in early 2020. With Tënk expanding across Canada, a real network is being created to properly represent the interests of its growing members, and to ensure the broadcasting of the best of documentary cinema.
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The online film academy, The Art of Documentary (AOD) was founded by Mark Bone and Michael Del Monte. AOD was founded to provide a course and a community that helps advance a more well-rounded filmmaker and gain access to professional opportunities.
Michael recently spoke with me this week to share more info about AOD and their inaugural Art of Documentary Film Festival taking place this Saturday, July 15th at Innis Town Hall in Toronto.
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